I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity this morning. I wasn't planning on going, but a friend of mine was in town for it, so I wanted to meet up with her. It was insane! The Rally to Restore Sanity created INSANITY on the DC metro system. They obviously weren't prepared for the number of people going to the rally.
I walked to the metro with another friend of mine and we were shocked to see a line of people out the metro.
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Waiting at the Vienna station in a packed metro car with
masses of people waiting on the platform for the next train. |
We cautiously approached, but were relieved to discover that the line was to buy tickets for the metro (we both have SmarTrip cards). We by-passed all the people waiting in line, but were shocked to see a full train with many people still waiting on the platform. If we had been smart, we would have turned around right then. But we waited for another train, which actually arrived packed full! After that, we decided to get in on the other side and go all the way out to Vienna before heading into DC. That worked and as a result we actually had seats on the train, but something happened that caused our train to be stuck in Vienna for 20 min. By the time the train was back at the place where we had started, over an hour had passed from the time we had first arrived. It took another 45 min to get into DC.
The phones were down because there were so many people jammed into the mall, but somehow I managed to run into my friend! If that hadn't happened, there is no way I would have been able to meet up with her.
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This sign at the Air and Space Museum reminded me
of Uncle Sam, and a similar Russian recruitment
poster. It made me wonder, who came up with the idea? |
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After the rally, we went into the Air and Space Museum for a couple hours. Then we went out to try to find some dinner. It was ridiculously hard to find an open restaurant on a Sat evening. We ended up going into Georgetown and stopped at Subway so we wouldn't have to wait. But it was fun.
Then I went to meet up with another friend to go to a Halloween dance. There I learned that another friend was in town visiting a mutual friend of ours, and we ran into another mutual friend who is living in Winchester, VA. What a small world!
Over all it was a really fun, but crazy day.
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